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     I have to be honest when I say that I have never joined the Tweeting community nor have I ever even checked out this new phenomenon to see if I would even be interested in it.  I feel as if the more people talk about Twitter, the more I am opposed to start using it.  This is because I am not exactly sure of what the purpose of Twitter really is.  Why use this website when Facebook is that plus so much more? Honestly, I have over 1,000 friends that everyone I know is on Facebook.  Even if i did decide to set up a Twitter account, I would not even know who has one that would become one of my followers.  Facebook offers status updates like Twitter, but also pictures, events, groups, etc. It is easier to go about networking on Facebook because I feel it is much more established, credible and has millions of more users than that of Twitter.  I feel that this is the same opinion that many of other web users have who are not joining the Twitter community.  It would definitely have been more popular if this site was launched before Facebook's takeover, but since it didn't, it seems to me as if it is almost just a cheap knockoff.


I think that Twitter had become more popular at certain times becuase people were interested to see what the site was all about, set up accounts, and then were never to use them again.  Not meaning to knock this site down too much becuase I do feel like it is starting to come back a little bit more recently.  There are certain news topics, such as Haiti, or other uprising organizations that have gone about making Twitter one of their main methods of promotion.  This leads me to believe that Twitter may be better than Facebook in a way that is geared for more business related purposes.  It is easy to track down a busniess or organization's status using Twitter because it doesnt give too many details and distractions that the same company would have using a Facebook page.  I feel that if Twitter was used for more organizations, busniesses or important figures rather than socializing then it definitely has not peaked yet.  I just feel that Twitter needs a little more time for it's credibility to be established, and webusers need more time to internalize the benefits this website has to offer. People like me need to accept the fact that Twitter is around and could potentially be something of use, especially in my feild of PR.